Source: File: young
soldiers of the 248th Regiment from Wurtemburg. See an original image at: <http://www.queensroyalsurreys.org.uk/new_museum/20th_century_room/Case5/The_Football.shtml>
[Accessed 13 July 2016]
In the practice
of confiscation
Of pocket books
from prisoners,
Or the dead, a
deduction made
Regarding German methods.
Between years of
17 to 20 all
German men had been subject
To military
service since 1871,
In class of their
20th birthday.
An indication from
pocket books
Provided
suggestion of differing
Classes of their
soldiers, already
Being sent to the
frontline to fight.
In the months of
1916, classes
Of this year were
called on, along
With 1917 classes;
information
Proved failing
army resources.
Southern Germany
and Dresden
Were cleared,
ready for influxes
Of 1918 class of German
youth -
Sources noting, already
underway.
A conclusion,
from pocket book
Studies suggested
these young
Soldiers, intended
for decisive blow,
Were just used to
fill wasted fronts.
Such classes were
little more than
Fodder, to drain
resources of south
Germany over
Prussia - the 1918
Class call-ups were
yet to happen.
by Jamie Mann.
Anon.,1916. 1916. Germany's cannon Fodder - Failing
Resources. The Daily Telegraph, [online] 14 July 1916. P.7. Col.1. Available at: <http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ww1-archive/12212035/Daily-Telegraph-July-14-1916.html>[Accessed:
14 July 2016].
Mann, J., 2016. 100 years Ago - Poems by Jamie Mann. [letter] (Personal communication,
14 July 2016).
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